a77 video bitrate at 1080p 60fps 28mbps

Just had a look at the preview videos for the a77. While the camera looks great, I'm not too impressed with the
video
it produces (or the sample jpgs either but that has been discussed at length).

What I see from these videos is compression artifact, lots of it. At 1080/60p, 28 mbps does not seem to be enough data, at least with the compression they are using, to do quality video. It could be an question of what codec is used to decompress the video. The media player in Windows 7 opened the mts file without problem. However when I use Quicktime to open video files my Canon 7D, the quality is much better than with Windows Media Player.

To put it into perspective at the maximum bitrate for the a77, each frame has a size of approx 60
KB
while an uncompressed 1080p frame with 8 bits per channel is about 6
MB
...

Those looking to new line of Sony cameras to do 1080p at 60fps I fear will be a bit dissapointed. Even their new large sensor pro video camera, the NEXFS100,
uses the same codec.